Big Pharma's Crime Spree: Drug Makers Pushing Products For Unapproved Uses
Pfizer and Lilly lead a parade of U.S. companies that have paid $7 billion in penalties after promoting drugs for uses not approved by the FDA. This u...
Pfizer and Lilly lead a parade of U.S. companies that have paid $7 billion in penalties after promoting drugs for uses not approved by the FDA. This u...
Washington Post | Walter Pincus | Posted 10.31.2009 | Politics
During a 12-month period ended in March this year, for example, the U.S. intelligence community suggested on a daily basis that 1,600 people qualified...
New York Times | DAVID M. HALBFINGER | Posted 10.19.2009 | New York
When news broke in August that the former United States attorney, Christopher J. Christie, had lent $46,000 to a top aide in the federal prosecutor's ...
Chris Weigant | Posted 10.25.2009 | Politics
Obama's plan is good news for medical marijuana advocates, but although this is a historic shift in the War on Drugs, it does not go far enough because it does not resolve the illogic of the underlying legal issue.
AP | DEVLIN BARRETT | Posted 10.19.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration will not seek to arrest medical marijuana users and suppliers as long as they conform to state laws, under...
Wall Street Journal | TAMARA AUDI | Posted 10.10.2009 | Entertainment
Lawyers for Roman Polanski met with U.S. Department of Justice officials to make their case against extraditing the 76-year-old fugitive film director...
Wired | Ryan Singel | Posted 10.09.2009 | Politics
The Department of Justice has finally admitted it in court papers: the nation's telecom companies are an arm of the government -- at least when it co...
Main Justice | Andrew Ramonas | Posted 10.06.2009 | Politics
More than eight months after President Barack Obama took office, one third of the country's U.S. Attorney offices are still run by prosecutors appoint...
Sam Gustin | Posted 10.01.2009 | Media
Federal regulators are virtually certain to scrutinize any substantial pairing of cable leader Comcast (CMSCA) and content behemoth NBC Universal, the...
AP | Posted 09.27.2009 | World
WASHINGTON — With the closing of the Guantanamo Bay prison by a January deadline in doubt, the Justice Department Saturday announced the transfe...
Mother Jones | � by Stephanie Mencimer | Posted 11.17.2009 | Business
Remember Jamie Leigh Jones, the Halliburton/KBR contractor who alleged she was gang raped by her co-workers in Iraq and then imprisoned in a shipping ...
Huffington Post | Nicholas Graham | Posted 10.17.2009 | Politics
Bruce Fein, a former associate deputy attorney general under President Reagan, made a couple of important points tonight on Hardball regarding the inv...
Talking Points Memo | Justin Elliott | Posted 10.16.2009 | Politics
We now have the lawyers of a former Republican Congressman arguing that the Bush Administration encouraged the Justice Department to leak information ...
Don Siegelman | Posted 09.27.2009 | Politics
The Bush era U.S. Attorney firing issue is anything but dead. The people who did Karl Rove's dirty work are still on the job right now because only a handful of the appointees have been replaced.
Brad Friedman | Posted 08.24.2009 | Politics
How it's even possible that former Alabama Governor Don Siegelman's bribery case and conviction has not long ago been dropped by the Dept. of Justice is beyond us.
RH Reality Check | Posted 08.22.2009 | World
During a press briefing at the International AIDS Conference in Toronto in 2006, a young Bangladeshi woman invited by the organization for which I was...
The Raw Story | Posted 08.21.2009 | Politics
When the US Justice Department announced in March 2007 that Chiquita Brands had pleaded guilty to "one count of engaging in transactions with a specia...
AP/Huffington Post | Posted 08.17.2009 | Politics
SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) -- A judge has agreed to remove the state of California as a defendant in a lawsuit challenging the 1996 law that prevents the ...
The Washington Independent | Posted 08.16.2009 | Politics
The Justice Department informed a federal district court Wednesday that it was no longer seeking to rely on coerced and tortured evidence in the habea...
nytimes.com | ERIC DASH | Posted 08.15.2009 | Business
The Justice Department is investigating the role of several major companies in the credit markets, in another indication that the government is intens...
Emptywheel | Posted 08.07.2009 | Politics
You know how Obama's DOJ claims that we can't see Cheney's interview with Patrick Fitzgerald because it's privileged? Well, Dick Cheney's lawyer alrea...
New York Times | SCOTT SHANE and DAVID JOHNSTON | Posted 07.07.2009 | Politics
When Justice Department lawyers engaged in a sharp internal debate in 2005 over brutal interrogation techniques, even some who believed that using to...
Kathleen Turner | Posted 05.16.2009 | Politics
If Republicans are able to prevent Dawn Johnsen from taking office, they'll have demonstrated an ability to block any nomination for the most craven, partisan reasons.
Crossover Dreams | Posted 05.13.2009 | Politics
Although Julio Mora is a U.S. citizen and his dad has a green card, they were arrested in Phoenix, Arizona, on suspicion of being undocumented aliens. The case is commonplace.
Washington Post | Posted 04.16.2009 | World
A Tehran businessman at the center of an alleged international weapons-trafficking scheme was charged today in federal court with violating U.S. expor...
Bloomberg | David Evans | Posted 11.09.2009 | Business